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By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
We Little Sisters spend our lives caring for the elderly, but I try to keep up with young people as much as I can. Last week I read a blog for young women about the impact of our throw-away culture on the quality of personal relationships. The more we move around, according to a recent […]
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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Katherine Duncan Andres, who was known for her volunteer and philanthropic work with Arlington Catholic Charities and other groups, died March 21 at her home in Warrenton. She was 79. A funeral Mass was offered March 29 at St. Mary Church in Old Town Alexandria. Father James R. Gould was the celebrant. Interment followed immediately […]
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By Rachel Beatrice
RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe March 29 vetoed pro-life legislation that would have cut off state funding to Planned Parenthood’s six Virginia health centers, which provide care to more than 22,000 men and women each year. McAuliffe rejected House Bill 1090, a measure supported by Republicans to prohibit the Virginia Department of Health from funding […]
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Walter Whitt, a senior at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, testified during a panel discussion convened by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington March 23. The panel, “Conversation on Child Cures,” included patients and advocates in support of H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. The legislation proposes an overhaul in the […]
Schools
Kathleen Hunter (right), fifth-grade teacher at St. Timothy School in Chantilly, helps her students plant tomato seeds. Once the plants produce, the tomatoes will be donated to the parish St. Vincent de Paul food pantry.
National
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – Less than a week after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement, the court released an order requesting that additional briefs be submitted showing if and how contraceptive insurance coverage could be obtained by employees through their insurance companies without directly involving the religious employers objecting to […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium,”) Pope Paul VI proposed that it include a statement that the pope is “accountable to the Lord alone.” The suggestion was referred to the Council’s Theological Commission, which, perhaps to Pope […]
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By Jill Kruse
DUBUQUE, Iowa – As Cari Campbell scrolled through the content of her Facebook newsfeed one day last August, the post of a friend living in Oregon caught her attention. Campbell could not have foreseen at the time how quickly that social media post would turn her world upside down or the way in which God […]
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By Zoey Dimauro
In 1871, two boys in the town of Pontmain, France, saw a vision of Mary. Their parents sent for the local teacher, who brought three schoolchildren with her. Only the youths could see the Blessed Virgin, dressed in a blue garment, covered with golden stars and carrying a red crucifix. As members of the town […]
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By Tanya Connor and William T. Clew
WORCESTER, Massachusetts (CNS) – A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was “a martyr of the truth.” Father Mulumba Kambale Matsongani, the only Congolese Assumptionist now living in the Worcester Diocese, shared memories of Assumptionist Father Vincent Machozi, who taught him in […]
